Show P Percy y Hammonds Hammond's Letter I B By PERCY HAMMOND NEW EW NE Lady LadY YOnh Lady contin continue le to pursue lice her herSh She Is a scarcely rl ri rit of ot her troubles with the Im bailiffs etc Ie the drama Io drama loters I begin to pester her with In Was Sash ington the most ct cf the cap cap- capItals cap capitals they revile lIe r her Ashes Ashe of Love Lov and hoot at t her own per per- per performance In It Her lle manager Earle Carroll her and Company wound her with their sneers In New ew York the audiences her with the tile malicious or having it seems Zone tone to 10 the theatre with that purpose puri os In view Hurt and impoverished by their disrespect the countess in Is In-I In In In- In I deed deell a spectacle or of suffering Wed Ved ded to calamity slie he sees aces no Im imbe diate ne- ne diate diale prospect o of elopement o or di Ill divorce vorce Yet lct she ahe sh endures this hell upon earth with a noble fortitude When the first at the National a theatre last Monday greeted her with rowdy ron tillers tItters she ahe Ignored their derision with II a a lofty indifference As one on who heretofore has ba looked 1 upon the ladys lady's behavior a as a trifle unkempt I shed for her a tear or two of pity lice Her play was not ISO so very bad I have seen twenty this season that were worse As the leading actor In It it she ahe might hove have been better had she been experienced experienced The story atory had ha-d the dubious advantage of being biographical an account of ot one of ot a fortnIghts fortnIght's notorious romances romonce An awkward stereotype it lacKed of at course the elements of ot u II Broadway master master- masterpIece masterpiece piece But bungling as it was was It did not excuse the ugly exhibition of III-breed III In on the th part of ot the cheap hobnails whose conspicuous snorts and titters were horrible Miss Baird Leonard in one ono ot of other her illuminating monotypes in Tho New Yorker describes the way first fighters as a race of ot hu bu buman man beings s not yet beheld on land landor landor lamor or sea ata They remind her of or some some- something thIng that might ml ht have havo been round found under a II board She wonders who wiron on earth th they arc are and whence on onearth earth they come conic The rho who snickered so obviously at the tho unhappy Cathcart's predicament were of ot the same came mysterious typo type They enjoyed themselves by Insult Insult- insult Inc log a foolish and unhappy woman whose conduct however reprehensible sible sibil was much less odious than their own In her difficulties with Ellis Island loland and the th secretary of labor the countess had the aid of ofa ofa II a multitude of ot prominent feminists indignation meetings were held and committees of angry women de- de d de denounced flounced the authorities for pester pester- pesterIng Ins Ing alady a a- lady ot of uneasy virtue Theil outcries of protest soon released her from the chain of her un Un- Un un chastity and had It not been for their assistance she sho sh would never neer have ha been able herself In Ashes of ot Love Where are aro ar these theBe helpers now T Moro Mor ore or less les reo re- re responsible for tor her present dilemma they take lake no steps to save sav her from fromI the he malevolent theatregoers So Soshe Soshe she ahe is left let alone to t eat the sour dish of retribution 1 proving ro again that it Is I the woman who ho pays paya and pays News New of the week The Theatre Guild the worlds world's most cunning and Important dramatic pre pre- sent The fhe Th Chief Thing Thine a Russian fantasia celebrating the tho th virtues virtue o 0 Illusion as an ment of ot hu- hu human hu human man happiness By way of ot the th good tood qualities of ot Im- Im Imposture Im Imposture posture three actors actor are caused to togo go to an art humble lodging house and to pretend to be b human beings of a helpful character Their counter I tt f it ministrations ministration Ion Ion ion The leading man makes make love Jove to the landlady ugly un-Iy and de- de de meted dau daughter the th comedian Is tender to an old outer down And down and pretty the dancer appearing a pret ret ty scullion a a gloomy young philosopher from at suicide 1 Nicola ff is 18 li Its II composer and und ho he h does docs fairly well by Devils DeU a play pIny by hy Daniel Danid Danl 1 nu flu nu- nu bIn ln depicts depict lc t life In the of aUIta the MIB valley with all aU Ita it cruel ru 1 1 religious n and arul i bell f In hell hellfire Ore and the ven of ot God A frantic clergyman John CrOmwell t 01 a s In Rain oppresses a Pitiable and by hIs hi evil fulminations causes her to blow out her hor brains But not until she th ha hn been ravished by her uncle sten-uncle a pIous plou agriculturist It Jt 1 1 i an un no- no relenting un and the on dram drama one ne of tho th squarest of f the tho season seaBon But it It I only or or those who Ilk like Ilku to sit lit upon thorn thorns There Ther la I nl also alo o a n re 10 r vival ot of f Ibsen's Ibsen Oho Gho ta t by the tue Actors Act the best bet In my I memory of a dozen of or them with Lucille Watson Wafon as Mrs Irs AI Al- Al Alving vine Al-vine ving and Jose Jo e Ruben Huben as the worm worm- worm eaten enten Owald Oswald The rhe Stagers an- an another an another other ambitious organizations pre cents double bill Easter and Conrad un Une Day More Moe cither oither Is though Easter has the advantage antage of the presence in it If Ita east cst of ot MI Mich Michael h ael act Strange who is known to her intimates as Mrs John B Mrs Mrs Barrymore was as as rapt an and l good looking though inefficient and she sho was subjected cled at the Iho first perform perform- I performance ance amice to humiliation humiliations hut but little few fewer er than those of ot the Countess ot of Cathcart Variety the he ha hard hard d 1 thea- thea theatre theatre tre magazine Is II In tors tI tIa a because the uplift this hi year has ha been un- un Un unprofitable profitable It estimates that of the thc productions production by the five ne mOSt promInent of the local toes art Institutes only two have hae Arms prospered Armand and the Man Ian and The Th Time after arter time the phIlanthropIsts have ha cast east pearls pearl p only to have havo them rejected by the swinish playgoers The Theatre Guild shrewdest of the t c bowmen the th Oreen- Oreen Village we the weI U Sta Stagers ers and the thc Actors Actor all have ha hav I uttered suffered from Indifference and tho lh ho Neighborhoods lI production of or The uk amounted only to a pub pub- public public lic sacrifice of per lieI week Is 1 there Variety Varlet Variety seems stems to Inquire no mOre TOTe money In art Why does doce Snatchers Snatcher attract I the he pay pay- log Ing- payIng pay multitude while T hil hile The Th Goat GoatSon Son Song does doc d c not You may If you like join Va lety i-lety In losing a lot of or sleep on an- an account ac account count ot of th the sit dation It 1 seems III that the things an and tho o e who strive for tor them should cut so BO little figure Is Zat So and amid The Shanghai Gesture prove allurIng to the multitudes sd nd and Lulu Belle Is Is as os Variety would say lay a wow Esthetic virtue however goes coes In rags ralla holding forth the tin cup or Of orthe the men The Borry y sori-y rry situation ap ap- ap appears peari BP pears to be bc the I c fault fa of th 8 llou n producers the actors artor thi the writers writer and the on no |